Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 55 90
Rank change year-on-year +27 +35 +35
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 148 67 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.11% 3.88% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 4.14% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 50 29
10th Percentile £346 £413 £393
25th Percentile £486 £486 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -16.80%
75th Percentile £664 £683 £650
90th Percentile £857 £765 £698
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,074 1,618 1,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.63% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,032 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £355 £361
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% -5.63%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.40% +4.53% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.35%) Loan IQ
1 2 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.68%) Maximo
2 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.68%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.68%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.62%) Azure
2 21 (14.19%) AWS
3 20 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.41%) GCP
4 8 (5.41%) SaaS
5 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.70%) Serverless
6 4 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.03%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.35%) Collibra
8 2 (1.35%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) NAS
2 1 (0.68%) PSTN
2 1 (0.68%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
2 1 (0.68%) VoIP
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) Power BI
2 6 (4.05%) Metadata
3 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.68%) DataStage
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) Power Query
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) JUnit
3 1 (0.68%) Mockito
3 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (36.49%) Finance
3 28 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (16.89%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.46%) Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.70%) Police
7 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.03%) Front Office
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (18.24%) Analyst
2 24 (16.22%) Architect
3 21 (14.19%) Lead
4 18 (12.16%) Business Analyst
5 16 (10.81%) Project Manager
6 14 (9.46%) Senior
7 9 (6.08%) Consultant
8 7 (4.73%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Technical Leader
10 5 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (3.38%) Change Manager
10 5 (3.38%) Junior
10 5 (3.38%) Security Manager
10 5 (3.38%) Strategy Architect
10 5 (3.38%) Strategy Manager
11 4 (2.70%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Developer
11 4 (2.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.70%) LangChain
1 4 (2.70%) LangGraph
1 4 (2.70%) PySpark
2 3 (2.03%) Spring
2 3 (2.03%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.35%) JSON
3 2 (1.35%) Kafka
3 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.35%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.35%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.68%) Middleware
4 1 (0.68%) Next.js
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.68%) Pandas
4 1 (0.68%) Playwright
4 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) REST
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.05%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
5 3 (2.03%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) CSOC
7 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (22.30%) Agile
3 28 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (17.57%) AI
4 26 (17.57%) Decision-Making
5 24 (16.22%) Analytics
5 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.54%) Migration
7 20 (13.51%) Roadmaps
8 17 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (11.49%) Project Delivery
9 16 (10.81%) DevOps
10 15 (10.14%) Project Management
11 14 (9.46%) Change Management
11 14 (9.46%) CI/CD
11 14 (9.46%) Risk Management
12 13 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (8.78%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (8.11%) Generative AI
13 12 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.76%) Python
1 10 (6.76%) SQL
2 4 (2.70%) Java
3 3 (2.03%) Bicep
3 3 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.35%) C#
4 2 (1.35%) Korn
4 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.68%) Scala
5 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.73%) Degree
4 5 (3.38%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.35%) CEH
6 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.35%) PMP
7 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) APMG
7 1 (0.68%) CCSK
7 1 (0.68%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) RIBA
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.76%) QA
3 8 (5.41%) PMO
4 7 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.73%) NIST
5 4 (2.70%) NCSC
6 3 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.03%) GDPR
6 3 (2.03%) SLA
7 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.68%) IFRS
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) NFS
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.38%) Terraform
2 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 32 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) Databricks
3 7 (4.73%) SAP
3 7 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle
4 3 (2.03%) Remedy
5 2 (1.35%) BMC
5 2 (1.35%) Charles River
5 2 (1.35%) Cisco
5 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.68%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.68%) IFS
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir
6 1 (0.68%) Planon
6 1 (0.68%) Pure Storage
6 1 (0.68%) Qualtrics